A name you know. A mood you’re in. Ten minutes to yourself. Start anywhere.
Recurring elements in the story’s premise.
A tenant sees the former owner of his rented house in a room with no exit.
A newspaper reporter spends the night alone in a Cincinnati house that crowds believe is haunted.
An abandoned Missouri farmhouse draws crowds when the vine covering it starts to move without wind.
An abandoned Vermont farmhouse draws three neighbors who want to test its haunted reputation.
An isolated house rumored to hide a fortune draws visitors after its secretive owner dies.
Two men agree to fight with knives in a house said to be haunted.
An exhausted traveler checks into an Atlanta hotel and wakes to find his room occupied.
A hunter spends the night in an abandoned gulch cabin and hears a struggle he cannot see.
Two travelers shelter from a storm in a house whose owners disappeared years earlier.
A man answers a childhood friend’s urgent summons and enters a decaying estate where the house and its last family seem bound together.
An old marquis confesses why one visit to a dead woman’s locked bedroom left him afraid of darkness for life.
A solitary collector watches every object in his beloved house walk away into the night—and no explanation can make the sight less real.
A confident skeptic spends the night in a notorious room, armed with candles and reason against its dark reputation.
A self-styled investigator of horrors climbs Tempest Mountain to uncover what has been killing whole families near an abandoned mansion.
An American heir restores his family’s ruined English priory, where only he and his cats can hear rats moving inside the walls.
A doctor and his nephew investigate a Providence house where generations of residents have weakened, gone mad, or died.
Two men debate whether any horror is truly beyond description while sitting beside the grave linked to a local legend.
A young man searching for a vanished singer rents a decaying room whose lingering traces seem to answer his longing.
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